"Music doesn't go seasonable to me." Rolling Jazz Dm7♭5 Thread 2017

oh wow! Just been listening to Denys Baptiste's The Late Trane for the 2nd time. Wasn't really feeling it the other day, but fuck! definitely am feeling it today!

That Mal Waldron article got me listening to the excellent album <i>Meditations</i> on Youtube. Is there any way to get a digital version of this? Or even something cheaper than the expensive import? It's not even on Spotify.

Slsk or t0rrentz probably your next best bet, as far as I know. His legacy doesn't seem to have been too well served so far.

Somehow I typed "Spotify" instead of "Soulseek". I couldn't find it on Soulseek.

it might be worth trying again, it is definitely on there.

Oh, I should update about seeing Ambrose Akinmusire: fantastic! It was all stuff from the live album. The only weakness really is the piano player, which also struck me with the live album. He certainly fits well at times, but his soloing and accompaniment often didn't seem to gel or just seemed a little like he's fresh out of music school. Everyone else was great. Akinmusire is a really sensitive player, for lack of a better description.

Posted this in the Afro-jazz thread by mistake:

Drummer Eric Harland is leading a really hot band for two nights at the Jazz Standard next week - Walter Smith III on tenor sax, Taylor Eigsti on piano, Harish Raghavan on bass. (Both Smith and Raghavan also play in Ambrose Akinmusire's band.) I'm hoping to catch one of their sets.

I love the short but joyous dub reggae segment at the end of Dusk Dawn on the Denys Baptiste' Trane album. And it isn't even near the best track. It's a reet fucking album!

This is not from 2017 but worth mentioning (I didn't see it come up in a search): the 2014 album Spiral Mercury of the Chicago/São Paulo Underground (one of Rob Mazurek's groups) featuring Pharoah Sanders is pretty good! Basically sort of what you'd expect if you're familiar with the Chicago Underground, Pharoah's playing, and mixing that with a Brazilian influence. I haven't heard the other album they did called Primative Jupiter.

Yeah, I've heard the one that's available on CD, but not the one that's vinyl-only.

Looks like the vinyl-only one is not available digitally at all. But it also seems that half of it might be on the CD album, since 2/4 tracks share song titles with the CD.

oh man, spiral mercury is great

say, has anyone seen the current Sun Ra Arkestra? They're playing this weekend in SF... am I an idiot if I don't go or is it just a bit of fun?

well I went to see the Arkestra and they were a blast. Just 2 solid hours of great music and a warm, generous vibe. Singer was very good - her rapport with Allen was a great anchor for the show. I feel like Ra would be happy and proud to see his band continue some 25 years since his passing.

2nd jazz/dub reggae track in a week I've heard is Roots Music's cover of Threadgill's Bermuda Blues. it is ok, but you simply can't fuck with the original!

Right now digging the current Steve Coleman: https://stevecoleman.bandcamp.com/album/morphogenesis
Before that, Harriet Tubman x Wadada Leo Smith (just ordered the CD):
http://sunnysidezone.com/album/araminta
Might order Miles Okazaki's Trickster
https://milesokazaki.bandcamp.com/releases
Though the live versions and studio excerpts are grabbing me more than those full-length studio tracks
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJq-zBbCa8jNjbCisRZbYYlMXSzwX6Av3

Thanks to Phil's Stereogum column for these last two (and he prob. mentioned Coleman as well)

The headline of this article is so bad but it's actually a really good article, lots to delve into here:

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/forget-old-europe-15-european-jazz-musicians-you-need-to-know-about-reinier-baas-by-enrico-bettinello.php

I didn't write about Coleman for Stereogum (I'm not much of a fan) but I did review it for The Wire. Among other things, I said:

Coleman invites it, but comparing the music on Morphogenesis to boxing does him no favors. There’s plenty of dazzling footwork on display, but very few punches being thrown. He’s a razor-sharp player and composer who can be heard thinking about every note, and this is very beautiful music, but it lacks the unhinged, reckless, swinging side that boxing and the best jazz share. Which only proves that inspiration is just a starting point: it’s what you do with it that matters.

Oh huh, I went to college with the percussionist on that Steve Coleman record.

New Stereogum column up. I talk about Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey, Burnt Sugar, Cyrus Chestnut, Russell Malone, Enrico Rava, and a bunch of other folks.

Thanks for the heads-up on a new Matt Wilson.

I assume Morgan Guerin is Roland Guerin's son?

Seems like a safe bet. I'm not familiar with Roland Guerin's work, though.

I liked Sorey's good humour towards that lot: Thx Pitchfork. Next time I'll try to do at least 1.4 better.

He's probably my favorite New Orleans bassist, mostly from seeing him play with Shannon Powell. He's also on various Marsalis things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8yJa6Rk90

I interviewed Michael Ehlers of Eremite Records for Bandcamp. The dude has some great stories. The line that made me laugh out loud was this one: "[Scott] Cashman was a teaching assistant to Archie Shepp at UMASS Amherst in the ’90s who went to Paris for a while to do a dissertation on expatriate American musicians and met Sunny [Murray] over there. When he got back he’s like, ‘I told Sunny all about you and your label’ and I’m like, ‘Don’t give that dude my number.’"

"Rather than indulge his misplaced ambition to make a bebop record,"

I would have been more interested in this^

Henry Threadgill was on WKCR this evening talking about and listening to Monk. Hardly heard any of it except for a great, nearly 20 minute version of "Evidence" recorded in Mainz.

The Art Ensemble of Chicago are playing NYC in October - with Joseph Jarman!

hi jazz thread ... jazz dummy in a mostly jazz-less town here. but the Ari Hoenig Trio is coming to play a show this fall.

should i be excited?

Sure, he's technically a great player and usually puts together a good band. He does have kind of a way of speaking that verges on eccentric- a wee bit louder than needed, as if he has headphones on, or as if talking to himself whist unaware that anyone else is there. I am thinking of seeing him soon with some Brazilians. Oh, Chico Pinheiro. If Chico is on the gig then you must go.

Yes! He's one of the most entertaining drummers to watch live this side of Dave King.

I tend to agree, although my two current most exciting drummers to watch are both Brazilians, not really on any "mainstream" jazz radar, I don't think, Rafael Barata and Edu Ribeiro, the latter living in Brazil and rarely playing here.

thanks y'all!

he'll be accompanied by Nitai Hershkovits and Or Bareket on this tour, says his website

?

No idea. But Ari himself is good enough that you should go.

Looks like I'm going to see Threadgill on 9/23 (he's premiering a new long form work for a new 15-member ensemble) and the Art Ensemble on 10/6. Woo-hoo!

Good for you

Based on a quick search those guys playing with Ari H seem to keep pretty good company. Please go and report back.

I just got a new album from Or Bareket in the mail; it's pretty nice - sort of world-jazz rhythm-driven stuff. I'll be writing it up for Stereogum.

Wondering about this---anybody heard it?!

WILLIAMS LIFETIME FEATURING JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, TONY
TITLE
Live In New York 1969
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
HI HAT
CATALOG #
HH 3084CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
8/11/2017

Tony Williams Lifetime, featuring John McLaughlin, live from New York, November 1969. Having fearlessly merged rock rhythms with jazz during a close association with Miles Davis, in 1969 the great Tony Williams founded Lifetime, featuring John McLaughlin at his innovative best, and the mighty organist Larry Young. The trio instantly won acclaim for their fiery, uncompromising improvisations, which are typified on this amazing performance. Recorded for radio broadcast in New York at the close of the year, the FM entire broadcast is presented here, digitally remastered, with background notes and images.
---from http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/williams-lifetime-featuring-john-mclaughlin-tony-live-in-new-york-196-cd/HH.3084CD.html Has track list too.

WILLIAMS LIFETIME FEATURING JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, TONY

This formatting hurt my head a little. That said, wow!

lifetime is a flat circle apparently

hey jazz bags, my brother released an album of original jazz composistions:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5DvnFSK9BBQJkmoyhMb8JF

My latest Stereogum column is live. I talk about the new Kamasi Washington EP, the Ornette Coleman Ornette At 12/Crisis reissue, and a bunch of other stuff, including a jazz vocal album I didn't hate(!).

Thank you for another great column, Phil--that Sam Bardfeld trio is esp grabbing my ear:
https://sambardfeld.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-enthusiasms

I've been digging into Ben Monder's work a little. The album he did with Sunny Kim last year sounds really nice on Spotify, with a lot of ambient guitar. Previous album with Theo Bleckmann unsurprisingly good.

Reminds me of this recent listing in The New Yorker:

NIGHT LIFE JAZZ AND STANDARDS
Ben Monder Trio
Monder may be decades younger than the visionary drummer Andrew Cyrille, but the venturesome guitarist found common ground with the older legend on the 2015 release “Amorphae.” Joining them is the saxophonist Tony Malaby, a tough-minded improviser who will add poetic grit to the mix.

(Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia St. 212-989-9319. Sept. 9.)

Now in the home stretch of David Murray and Aki Takase's 2017 Cherry Sakura, getting into it more than expected, given the absence of any other players, but good range of moods and material---also, Murray applies his bass clarinet to the exuberant suavity of "Let's Cool One", back to tenor for the elegant elegy "Nobuko", some out incidents too.

Incisive homage in part to Rollins, Coltrane, Tyner, Ibrahim on Long March To Freedom, the finale---and now Spotify is hustling me right into "Goldfisch" by Tama (Jan Roder / Oliver Steidle / Aki Takase): excellent fun.

Another 2017 release: ERR Guitar, by Elliott Sharp with Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot. No other instruments, and none missed, for a while longer than expected, because these three are compatible, establishing an extended sonic vocabulary, incl. occasional Spanish chords, zig-zag repartee, pedals I think, Sharrockian slide, modulation in mid-run or as run (no electronic thingies of course, just peg-twisting), a whole lotta pluckin/, pickin', chirpin goin' on (coulda used more chords, Spanish or whatever), kinda thin but not too, unlike ny attention level at times, but they kept bringing me back, though I couldn't say where, since these 12 might as well have been one track---almost, but extended finale "Kernel Panic" does finally bring some (some) distortion and heat
Given the limits of first listens, this 65-minute set is pretty agreeable, on the whole---and immediately upstaged by Nels Cline's "So Hard It Hurts/Touching", conceptually and expressively. Oh, Spotify!

I really like (wildly eclectic + brilliant) guitarist Vítor Rua and The Metaphysical Angels' Do Androids Dream Of Electric Guitars double album. Specifically the CD1 solo album, rather than the quartet version. But it is all very good really.